Improved fountain-beush



1. B. WARREN.

Brush.

Patent ed Nov. .19, I867.

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JOSEPH B. WARREN, or sonrnnanvnns, ASSIGNOR fro GEORGE n. MELGHER, 0F SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 71,094, dated November 19, 1867.

IMPROVED FOUNTAIN-BRUSH.

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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY'COME:

Be it known that I, J 0SEPII B. WARREN, of South Danvers, in the county of Essex, and State of Masse chusetts, have invented an Improved Fountain-Brush; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure I'is a vertical section, and

Figure 2 an elevation of the said brush.

Figure 3 is a top view of its duplex-padded'valve and lower valve-seat dr plate.

In such drawings, A denotes'a circular brush, having its back, a, arranged within a corresponding socket, a'rprojecting fromone end of a metallic box or vessel, 13. This box is cylindrical, and is provided with a filling orifice, b, and a plug or screw-cap, c, thereto, they being arranged in the bottom n of the box. This box or vessel is intended, not only as a handle forthe brush, but as a holder or reservoir for a liquid or paint, to be applied to any surface by thebrush. A short distance below the upper end or head at of the box there is extended across such box a partition, e, which is disposed parallel to the said head, d. The head 11 forms the bottom of the socket a, for holding the brush-back a, such back being confined within the said socket either by pressing the metal of the rim of the socket down upon the outer face of the block, or by nails or screws driven through the rim of the socket and into the block. The brush-block a, the head 41, and the partition 0, are perforated through their centres, that is, each has a hole made through it, as shown at fg h, in fig. 1. The head cl and the partition e constitute two valve-seats, there being arranged between them a duplex-padded valve, C, formed of plate-metal, and having on each of its two opposite suri'aces a layer of India rubber or leather, as shown at i k. The valve turns'on a centre-pin, Z, projecting from the lower plate. The valve also has a hole, m, made transversely through it, and with the centre of such hole, in the circumference of a circle of which the axis of the pin [is the centre, and the distance from the centre of such pin to that of eithr hole,f, g, or it, is the radius. A handle or projection, 11, of the. valve extends through and beyond a slot, 0, made in the side of the ease. The elastic padding of the valve is to fit closely against both of the valve-seats By means of such valve, (or gate, as it may the termed,) the passage for leading the fluid from the reservoir to they brush may be wholly closed, and more or less opened, as occasion may require, the valve being moved by a person, by the thumb and forefinger of 'one of his hands being applied to the handle or projection n. The duplex-padded valve, with its two seats, constitutes a means of efi'ectually stopping the egress of the fluid from the reservoir, or its leakage therefrom into the brush; and besides this, the padding of the valve answers the purpose of a friction device, to retain the valve in any position between its seats.

I make no claim to what is termed a fountain-brush, that is, a brush having not only a reservoir for holding a liquid, but a valve for regulating the flowagc of such liquid from the reservoir into the brush.

The advantages of the duplex-padded valve and its two seats, over a single-padded valve and a single seat thereto, may be thus explained: Each seat aids in holding the valve close against the other, aud in case of leakage between one pad of the valve and its seat, the other seat and pad will prevent the liquid from escaping into the brush, or out of the slot through which the valvehandle works. I

I claim my improved fountain-brush, having not only a duplex-padded valve, as described, but two perforated bearing-plates or seats thereto, and the valve, or a projection from it, to turn on a centre between such seats, and extend through an opening or slot in the side of the case, substantially in manner and so as to operate as specified.

I also claim the brush-fountain, as made, not only with a socket to receive the brush in manner as described, but with the two valve-seats, and a valve arranged between and so as to operate with them in manner substantially as explained,

- JOSEPH B. WARREN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

